Hayate no Gotoku!! (Hayate the Combat Butler!!)

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English: Hayate the Combat Butler!!

Synonyms: Hayate the Combat Butler Season 2

Japanese: ハヤテのごとく!!

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Type: TV

Episodes: 25

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 4, 2009 to Sep 19, 2009

Premiered: Spring 2009

Broadcast: Saturdays at 01:23 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo, Geneon Universal Entertainment, Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: J.C.Staff

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Comedy, Romance

Themes: Harem, Parody

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.71¹ (scored by 51,276 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #1027²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #1517

Members: 105,068

Favorites: 469

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Synopsis

Hayate Ayasaki's misfortune continues to hand him the short end of the stick. Now settled into his routine at the Sanzenins' mansion and Hakuou Academy, the butler continues to work as hard as ever in caring for his young mistress Nagi while studying the school's grueling curriculum—all on top of trying his best to survive the multitude of troubles that life relentlessly pushes onto him.

The unintentional chick magnet's life is far from quiet, forced to deal not only with Nagi's yet unnoticed infatuation with him, but also the evergrowing string of accidentally seduced girls—most notably, the exceptionally plain Ayumu Nishizawa, a friend of his before he became a butler, and the diligent Hinagiku Katsura, Hakuou's student council president. While one struggles to gain his affection and the other desperately tries to deny her own, both the girls are going to make the boy's life a little more complicated than it already is.

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Adaptation:	Hayate no Gotoku!
Prequel:	Hayate no Gotoku!!: Atsu ga Natsuize - Mizugi-hen!
Sequel:	Hayate no Gotoku! Heaven Is a Place on Earth

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Staff

Iwata, Shiniichi

Producer

Iwasaki, Yoshiaki

Director

Watanabe, Jun

Sound Director

Jinbo, Masato

Episode Director

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Opening Theme

#1: "Wonder Wind" by ELISA (eps 1-17)
#2: "daily-daily Dream!!" by KOTOKO (eps 18-25)

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Ending Theme

#1: "Honjitsu, Mankai Watashi Iro! (本日、満開ワタシ色!)" by Katsura Hinagiku with Hakuou Academy Student Council Trio starring Itou Shizuka with Yahagi Sayuri & Nakao Eri & Asano Masumi (eps 1-17)
#2: "Karakoi ~Dakara Shoujo wa Koi wo Suru~ (カラコイ～だから少女は恋をする～)" by Kugimiya Rie and Shiraishi Ryoko (eps 18-24)
#3: "Wonder Wind" by ELISA (ep 25)

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Sep 20, 2009

25 of 25 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

game8910 (All reviews)

161 people found this review helpful

Hayate no Gotoku! (or Hayate the Combat Butler if you prefer) is a manga created by Kenjiro Hata which is currently still ongoing. It has already received an anime adaptation by SynergySP which ran for an impressive full year with 52 episodes. A year later, and under a new animation studio, Hayate no Gotoku!! is the sequel to the popular parody-comedy, romance series.

Story:
+ As a parody-comedy there isnt really much of a plot, however this season is a near perfect adaptation from the original manga.
+ Completely ignores the filler material from season 1 and starts off from where last season derailred. (Ep 25 season 1)
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Nov 17, 2009

25 of 25 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

Saintly (All reviews)

46 people found this review helpful

Hayate no Gotoku - you've been a long road for me: 75 episodes is no easy task for a 12 to 24-episode convert. (76 including the 30 minute OVA.)

Down to brass tax: the story has, outright, abandoned the "Hayate owes 150 million yen" arch. True, it keeps him as the butler to Nagi, but, compared to the first season, it's not the driving factor - the relationships are now.

If you saw the prequel to the second season, the OVA, you would have been slightly shocked with, not only with the art style, but with the more relationship-oriented season that is to come. For example, Hayate makes only one reference the entire OVA to the fact that he owes 150 million yen, this translates rather proportionally to the amount of the "debt story arch" you'll be receiving in the second season.

If you came to see the conclusion of Hayate's triumphant victory over his insurmountable debt, stay at the door. If you came to have fun with the relationships, triangles, and awkwardness, I saved you a seat. The majority of the episodes are geared towards one of Hayate's female suitors (if we're calling this a harem). Now, I say most are, some episodes are rather needless and, frankly, there are a few I could care less about, but the longest "new" story arch that you will see will last for approximately 2 episodes in length. 7/10.

The art here is solid; much more luminous and light. I for one, enjoyed the switch to the new art style, but if you saw the OVA's and were hoping that it had changed, sorry, it stays for the remainder of the 25 episodes. 9/10. (Better than the first season.)

Ohhhh, boy. The second best part of the series was the sound. I liked the theme, and every time I sensed myself getting a little fed up with the current theme, it was like they read my mind and it was changed the next episode. Every opening/closing was fresh and upbeat - much like the show is.

Second, voice acting. You can't get much better than the two voice actors of Maria and Hayate. No, sir. You cannot. Maria, as we know is rather reserved and pensive and her voice reflects that as clear as undisturbed water. Hayate's voice in full of ignorance and apprehension, but it also full of innocent power. Great job to especially these voice actors, but to all who participated in the show. 10/10.

HINAGIKU ASSAULT. Be ready for it. Trust me. Huge character development on the part of Hinagiku would be an understatement. Albeit she is given a FAIR SHARE of screen time and another crucial development takes place which I'm sure you saw prefaced in the OVA, possibly even in the first season as well.

Ayumu is the only other standout character with her development and role that she takes on in the second season: more mature and, I found her, very profound and insightful.

The majority of the other characters remain vastly the same. Hey, if ain't broke, don't fix it. 8/10.

My enjoyment partially played into the fact that the show gave me what I was looking for after the first season: an identity. In this season, we saw that it had settled into a romantic comedy identity and spruced it up with a few action bits, but not as much as the first season. 8/10.

To me, this was a wise decision. You can't have an anime that's solely based on comedy and have all these extremely powerful personalities behind it, because the characters will seem like they're forcing it and being too fake. Thankfully, the romantic comedy aspect was brought to bear, and the "strong personalities" were satiated, tamed, and, most importantly, and garnered success.

The show still maintains its comedy and it's the length of the second season has been halved to 25 episodes, but the affect the storytelling leaves on you is as substantial as the first: it's very funny, makes impossible-to-get-every-single-reference references, good characters, a reasonable plot, good sound, and as entertaining as any other anime out there. 8/10.

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Jun 6, 2009

25 of 25 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

holicisms (All reviews)

36 people found this review helpful

Hayate no Gotoku!! is a unique parody and slice of life series that mainly focuses on the relationships between characters. It features some of the funniest and most ridiculous characters that one could find, which is the primary reason it is so entertaining.

I for one am very proud of J.C. Staff for sticking to the source material. While at times an episode could seem rigid and have poor flow from the first half to the next, seeing chapters from the manga coming to be animated brings a feeling of joy.

The art however leaves something to be desired. The change of color and designs read more

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Dec 7, 2009

25 of 25 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

Alberio (All reviews)

9 people found this review helpful

"Hayate no Gotoku", season two is definitely a graphical improvement on the first. I'm not saying that the animation from season 1 is bad, I'm just saying that the new animation is an upgrade from the original.

...Anyhow, the second season is more of the hilarious fun that we know and love. All the characters have returned with full force, bringing with them more aspects of their personalities which were seen in the manga version. A definite plus in my opinion.

This time the focus isn't set as much on Hayate's debt as it is the slight romace that goes on between the characters (though Hayate read more

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